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PEPSI REFRESH PROJECT, RETT SYNDROME, and me

My 21 year old daughter, Beccah, has Rett Syndrome.

Pepsi is giving away $1,300,000 each month to fund great ideas. One of the GREAT IDEAS is to Fund the "Research to Reality" campaign for Rett Syndrome research. You can vote for the ideas online or by sending a text from your cell phone. The top TWO ideas will be funded. The Rett Syndrome research project is in line for $250,000 ... AND I was told that there is a company that is willing to MATCH this funding if it is received. Tonight, August 31, the voting ends at midnight. Rett Syndrome has been bouncing back and forth today between position #2 and #3. It needs to finish in the #2 spot to be funded!

 

If you are interested in this project, please go to www.refresheverything.com/rettresearchtoreality to register and vote or text the message 100842 to Pepsi (73774) from your cell phone.... OR DO BOTH!! : ) There is also a clip there with Clint Black telling you about Rett Syndrome.

As we come down to the wire, I'd love your help. This is a terrible disease that affects only girls and there is no cure. Place a vote to help girls like my daughter have the chance of a brighter future! (You can also share this on your Facebook page and get your friends to vote!) Thanks for your help!

 

I'm sharing with you a photo of my family taking at Thanksgiving in 2008. This was our last Thanksgiving with my mom, who passed away in February of 2009 at the age of 90. Beccah is in front of me (on the left), my sister Jackie, my twin sister, Shayne, my mom, my son Wade, and my daughter Dayna. It's almost impossible to get a good photo of Beccah because she won't make eye contact, which includes looking at a camera.

 

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Uploaded on August 31, 2010
Taken on November 27, 2008